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Author | : Angie Schmitt |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1642830836 |
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Author | : Lauren Barnholdt |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442451289 |
In this companion to "Two-Way Street," 17-year-old Peyton convinces 18-year-old Jace to drive her from a Florida wedding toward her Connecticut home. However, both Peyton and Jace avoid the obvious attraction they have felt since they met at Christmas.
Author | : State of State of Illinois |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
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Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road handbook, drive safe!
Author | : Tom Vanderbilt |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0307373177 |
Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.
Author | : Ethan Coen |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307462692 |
Provocative, revealing, and often hilarious poems by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of No Country for Old Men In his screenplays and short stories, Ethan Coen surprises and delights us with a rich brew of ideas, observations, and perceptions. In his first collection of poems he does much the same. The range of his poems is remarkable–funny, ribald, provocative, sometimes raw, and often touching and profound. In these poems, Coen writes of his childhood, his hopes and dreams, his disappointments, his career in Hollywood, his physically demanding love affair with Mamie Eisenhower, and his decade-long battle with amphetamines that produced some of the lengthier poems in the collection. You will chuckle, nodding with recognition as you turn the pages, perhaps even stopping occasionally to read.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works |
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Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Governmental investigations |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Irrigation laws |
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works |
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Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Roads |
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Author | : United States. General Land Office |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Public lands |
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